SharePoint 2013 New Features

SharePoint 2013 New
Features

Hi
friends, I am holding your hands to travel with me in this article to grasp the
New Features of SharePoint 2013.

Social Computing and
Collaboration

It offers
an improved user experience for user to share and collaborate with other's in
their organization.

Communities

In
SharePoint 2010, it provides Discussion List to start discussions among the site
members. Addition to this, SharePoint 2013 have two site templates. One is Community
Site and the other is Community Portal which holds the individual community sites.

Community
Site offers:

·Users become members once they start their
contribution

·Based on user's level of contribution badges(Beginner,
Moderator and Expert) will be assigned

·Interestingly score is calculated based on
likes, dislikes, best answer contributed by the user

Community
Portal is a collection of community sites.It provides the
overview of popular communities from where we can join to interested
communities.

My
Sites

My Site is
our owned site where we can store personal information, shared documents,
tagging content. Addition to SharePoint 2010 my site features, SharePoint 2013
has better redesigned and modernized user interface with extendable features
such as

·Microblogging and Newsfeeds

·Follow people and edit profile

Task Management

SharePoint
2013 allows you to manage and sync the tasks list in the following ways:

·Newsfeed discussions have a follow up option. This automatically creates a task in your My
Tasks area

·My Task page will aggregate all our tasks available
in the SharePoint farm

·By configuring the Work Management Service
application, we have an option 'Sync to
Outlook' which will sync the task list information to Outlook & vice
versa

Design
manager isn't a simple new feature. It
is an entire new web-based tool to help you to manage Master Pages,
Composed Looks, Devices, Reusable style templates and managing all aspects of
branding your SharePoint Site. If you are well expert in design with HTML and
CSS, the Design manager will simply integrate the HTML form into functional
Master Page.

Content Search Web
Part

Content
Search Web Part is the mature level of Content Query Web Part. It is used to produce the search results
instantly with the help of continuous crawl introduced in SharePoint 2013 by
using search based query and an advanced query building to aggregate the
content from different locations. Design Manager help us to create HTML and JS
friendly templates for Content Search Web part instead of using XLST and
itemstyles templates.

·Visual Studio can connect to an OData end point
to automatically generating the BDC model for OData data source

These
improvements in BCS support for,

·App for SharePoint

·External list to access with other SharePoint
Lists and OData Business Data Connectivity (BDC) connections.

SharePoint
2013 listener and subscriber are playing a vital role in receiving
notifications from external systems when data changes.

Business Intelligence

It provides BI
tools integration with Microsoft Office applications and Microsoft
technologies. Some of the important services are listed below:

·Excel BI - which
provides the capability to analyze and explore the data in any size. The
features included in it are In Memory BI Engine
(IBMI), Power view Add-in and Decoupled PivotChart and PivotTable reports

·Excel
Services - which provide us to view and interact with the Excel workbook with
features including exploring the data with SQL Server Analysis Service and Power
Pivot data models. Also we can view and change the fields and values in PivotChart and PivotTable reports

·Performance
Point Services - which is mainly used to interact and create dashboards using
KPI's with extendable features like Dashboard
Migration, BI Center Update, Filter Enhancements and Filter Search, support on
iPad devices and Analysis Services Effective User

Identity Management

It's the
new term for authentication management that is mainly the process of using
claim-based authentication. Addition to
this, SharePoint 2013 consists of

·Server-to-server authentication

·App authentication by utilizing and extending
the Open Authorization 2.0 web protocol

Mobile Devices

SharePoint
2013 plays a vital role in optimized view experiences across different mobile
platforms. It offers several new
features with functionality including Optimized
mobile browser experience, Push notifications, GeoLocation field type, Business
Intelligence content.

Apps for SharePoint

As aDeveloper- We can design our app by using web application languages (HTML, JS, PHP
and .NET) and development tool (VS 2012, NAPA and O365) and it also supports
tired architecture model. As aUser- We have the facility for
creating our own App and publish or host it in SharePoint Store called Cloud
App

Site Collection Health
Checker

It is one
of the great features in SharePoint 2013 mainly used by site collection owners
or administrator to detect and address any potential issues before and after or
during the site collection upgrade to new version. The checker will sometimes
detect the issue and repair it automatically but others require manual steps to
repair.